Fake News, Real Blues

Russell Contreras is a reporter with The Associated Press in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and is a member of the AP's national race and ethnicity team. He covers immigration, politics in the American Southwest, poverty, travel and Latino issues. Contreras is the former president of UNITY: Journalists for Diversity and a member of the Native American Journalists Association. He has covered stories in Houston, Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Appalachia, the Mississippi Delta and the U.S.-Mexico Border. He is writing a book on President John F. Kennedy and Latinos.

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